Jacksonville Female Academy - 1836

Contributed byThe Morgan Area
Genealogical Association

From an article in a Jacksonville newspaper by Ensley Moore. (Undated, Ca 1916)

The catalougue of the Jacksonville Female Academy for the year 1836--eighty years
ago--is interesting. It was a booklet of twelve pages, besides the cover of green glazed
paper on the outside, and white inside.

The teachers were: Principal, Miss Emily P. Price; Assistant Pupils, Miss Ann Hart,
and Miss Ruth W. Bateman. The addresses of three pupils were vut (sic - probably
"left") out on the first page, and the names and addresses of three others on
the second page. The latter are supplied herein. The names then, and since--so far as
known to the writer--of the sixty eight pupils were: